poetry terminology Flashcards

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septet

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seven line stanza

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sestet

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six line stanza

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caesura

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break in the middle of a line, marked by a piece of punctuation.

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liebestod

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the theme of erotic love and death together.

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paradox

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a contradictory statement or proposition.

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analysis

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past event that’s narrated later than its chronological place.

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envoy

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short stanza at the end of the poem such as a ballad that is used to address a person.

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prolepsis

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order of events that’s disrupted so a future plot point is told before it happens.

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euphemism

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a mild or indirect expression that’s used to replace one that’s too harsh or blunt

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free verse

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a form of poetry that doesn’t follow any strict rhyme scheme or rhythm

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phrase that uses negataition to create an affirmative statement

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dialect lexis

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words used in text or spoken data

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repetend

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a phrase or line that is repeated, sometimes with variation, at irregular points in the poem.

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asyndeton

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a fig of speech In which co ordinating junctions, and as if but, that joins words or clauses too make them sound of equal importance.

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polysyndeton

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device that uses multiple repetitions of the same conjunction

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refrain

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a line, word, or phrase that is repeated periodically within the poem to build up drama emphasis or rhythm

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corporal imagery

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imagery of the hands

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diacope

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repetition of words

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medial caesura

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punctuation in the middle of a line

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free verse

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no strict stanza type

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triadic structure

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set of 3 eg
rather run than walk, rather climb than run, rather leap

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parenthetic dashes

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used ti mirror sense of disruption in some way “-“

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archaism

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old English words connote tradition and ritualism

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villanelle

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poetic form

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polysemanic

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many meanings

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